Llama Chat vTK-421

[Rafae]

Oh wow

[Rafae]

The weather is so good rn

 

[dudclub55]

what the hell is a Missassauga?

[E•MO•TION]

what the hell is a Missassauga?

A suburb of Toronto.

[AlienTwo]

Just another Indian nation decimated by immigration.

 

#MAGA

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

lol ewww no! >.< I live in Hawaii currently

 

Sorry, could not resist.

 

Seriously though, not sure if i would mind people living like...anywhere pretty much.

 

Many times when people show some flag under their profile picture, i do not even know from what state/country it is

[dudclub55]

 

what the hell is a Missassauga?

A suburb of Toronto.

 

 

Hot.

[Rafae]

Just another Indian nation decimated by immigration.

 

#MAGA

[V4S]

 

 

 

lol ewww no! >.< I live in Hawaii currently

 

Sorry, could not resist.

 

Seriously though, not sure if i would mind people living like...anywhere pretty much.

 

Many times when people show some flag under their profile picture, i do not even know from what state/country it is

 

 

 

It's not as great as you think, $100 here is like $80, cost of living is so expensive and even shipping things here is ridiculous! The good thing is how everything is so close, but you have to deal with terrible roads, traffic, parking, there aren't many wild animals or bugs that can kill you, and the people here are so diverse. Hawaii is a place that really embraces all cultures and races and is usually pretty peaceful here. If there is ever an attack here though we're all pretty much toast since its so tiny.

Edited April 9, 2017 by V4S

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

Just looked in the mirror seems i scratched my nose open on 2 spots the past week....woops.

 

I'm guessing i really got stressed out by failing my driving test more then i realized....or i am bored ?!

[E•MO•TION]

 

 

what the hell is a Missassauga?

A suburb of Toronto.

 

Hot.

You know it.

 

[Retro Flutter]

Hey. Thought I'd pop in. been back into GTA Online with a few friends lately...stoked about the upcoming DLC.

[Rafae]

Hey. Thought I'd pop in. been back into GTA Online with a few friends lately...stoked about the upcoming DLC.

Wrong section fool!

[Mach1bud]

 

 

 

lol ewww no! >.< I live in Hawaii currently

 

Sorry, could not resist.

 

Seriously though, not sure if i would mind people living like...anywhere pretty much.

 

Many times when people show some flag under their profile picture, i do not even know from what state/country it is

 

 

 

It's not as great as you think, $100 here is like $80, cost of living is so expensive and even shipping things here is ridiculous! The good thing is how everything is so close, but you have to deal with terrible roads, traffic, parking, there aren't many wild animals or bugs that can kill you, and the people here are so diverse. Hawaii is a place that really embraces all cultures and races and is usually pretty peaceful here. If there is ever an attack here though we're all pretty much toast since its so tiny.

 

All this is accurate. I've visited Hawaii a few times and the roads are f*cking horrible. My little rental car made it kinda fun though lol. Also gas was like double what it costs in the states.

 

I'd say if anyone attacks Hawaii then we should all worry, I mean, f*ck man WWII was a bitch.

[ShadowPerson]

Just looked in the mirror seems i scratched my nose open on 2 spots the past week....woops.

 

I'm guessing i really got stressed out by failing my driving test more then i realized....or i am bored ?!

 

80% stressed and 20% bored, I guess.

[AlienTwo]

 

Hey. Thought I'd pop in. been back into GTA Online with a few friends lately...stoked about the upcoming DLC.

Wrong section fool!You have no idea who you're talking to or what about.

 

Sup, Fluttershy!

[Audi]

 

It's not as great as you think, $100 here is like $80, cost of living is so expensive and even shipping things here is ridiculous! The good thing is how everything is so close, but you have to deal with terrible roads, traffic, parking, there aren't many wild animals or bugs that can kill you, and the people here are so diverse. Hawaii is a place that really embraces all cultures and races and is usually pretty peaceful here. If there is ever an attack here though we're all pretty much toast since its so tiny.

 

 

Yeah my younger sister was going to go to University of Hawaii but hesitated after seeing how expensive everything was. College students are broke enough as is lol.

[V4S]

I think college just makes everyone broke. My professor was still paying off his student loans.

[K^2]

I think college just makes everyone broke. My professor was still paying off his student loans.

There are ways to get around it, especially at graduate school level. But it involves actually studying in high school. And I don't mean just going to classes and getting good grades. Standard program is criminally inadequate. If you aren't taking college level classes by grade 11, you're doing it wrong.

 

Ideally, you want to focus on STEM fields, even if it's not exactly what you want to do further down the line. STEM gets all sorts of gov't grant support that can go straight towards your tuition or even living expenses pretty much as soon as you hit University. If you want to focus on humanities or liberal arts, this track is a lot harder, and you're likely to accumulate at least some quantity of debt. But you can still mitigate it dramatically with gov't assistance. You just have to be at the top of the field. And let me tell, you competition is not that stiff if you're willing to work at it. Overwhelming majority of University students did bugger all in high school, and are likely to be incapable of much even after graduation. You just have to be better than that crowd to receive funding you need to avoid loans.

[Retro Flutter]

 

 

Hey. Thought I'd pop in. been back into GTA Online with a few friends lately...stoked about the upcoming DLC.

Wrong section fool!

You have no idea who you're talking to or what about.

 

Sup, Fluttershy!

 

 

Haha.

 

It goes. Spring seems to of finally arrived, means more outdoors stuff...went for a rip on my mountain bike with a couple buds this afternoon. felt pretty good, helps getting out of that winter slump. Pretty stoked about this season for biking.

[Algonquin Assassin]

I think this semester at uni has been my favourite thus far. Between cultural studies and games design I'm having a blast. Especially with games design. For the last few tutorials all we've done is game jam creating board games lol. It feels like we're just messing around even though we're really not. It's actually quite amazing how much in common the mechanics of a board game have with video games even though you would never think so.

 

My next assignment requires me to make a game document 25 pages long, 4500 words on a game design I have come up with (I've already presented my pitch in class. Got a cool grade). It'll be a lot of work, but I'm looking forward to it.

[Leftist Bastard]

 

I think college just makes everyone broke. My professor was still paying off his student loans.

There are ways to get around it, especially at graduate school level. But it involves actually studying in high school. And I don't mean just going to classes and getting good grades. Standard program is criminally inadequate. If you aren't taking college level classes by grade 11, you're doing it wrong.

 

Ideally, you want to focus on STEM fields, even if it's not exactly what you want to do further down the line. STEM gets all sorts of gov't grant support that can go straight towards your tuition or even living expenses pretty much as soon as you hit University. If you want to focus on humanities or liberal arts, this track is a lot harder, and you're likely to accumulate at least some quantity of debt. But you can still mitigate it dramatically with gov't assistance. You just have to be at the top of the field. And let me tell, you competition is not that stiff if you're willing to work at it. Overwhelming majority of University students did bugger all in high school, and are likely to be incapable of much even after graduation. You just have to be better than that crowd to receive funding you need to avoid loans.

 

I think there is something fundamentally wrong with the system in place when you have to do this much to just graduate without debt.

[K^2]

I think there is something fundamentally wrong with the system in place when you have to do this much to just graduate without debt.

"This much" being actually studying in school?

 

I'll grant you that a system where majority of population cannot afford to go through university, leaving them little chance to be more than a burden on society, is fundamentally flawed. But if we were to pay tuition for all of these people right now, it'd be colossal waste of money, as they are simply unprepared for academia.

 

Without fixing the K-12 education, talking about cost of higher education is a moot point. That's where we should be focusing our resources.

 

When I was still a graduate student, I spent at least two years teaching physics labs at a university. Not some hole-in-the-wall college, but your average four-year university. The kids I was getting were not physics majors, as these are taught by physics professors, but they were taking physics because it was associated with their field in some way. Mostly pre-meds, architects, some pilots, etc. And the course wasn't particularly hard-core. Introductory physics, no calculus, a touch of trig, but mostly just your standard mathematics you ought to have learned in high school. If I got one student in a group of 20 that had the full necessary background, it was lucky.

 

With this level of incoming students, there is no reason to try and make it easier for people to get a College/University degree. The few students who did study in high school and did get a proper background already make it into good Universities with a stipend to get them through at least most of their expenses.

[Not A Nice Person]

Idek what to do with my life, I might just kms after high school and be done with it.

[Leftist Bastard]

 

I think there is something fundamentally wrong with the system in place when you have to do this much to just graduate without debt.

"This much" being actually studying in school?

 

I'll grant you that a system where majority of population cannot afford to go through university, leaving them little chance to be more than a burden on society, is fundamentally flawed. But if we were to pay tuition for all of these people right now, it'd be colossal waste of money, as they are simply unprepared for academia.

 

Without fixing the K-12 education, talking about cost of higher education is a moot point. That's where we should be focusing our resources.

 

When I was still a graduate student, I spent at least two years teaching physics labs at a university. Not some hole-in-the-wall college, but your average four-year university. The kids I was getting were not physics majors, as these are taught by physics professors, but they were taking physics because it was associated with their field in some way. Mostly pre-meds, architects, some pilots, etc. And the course wasn't particularly hard-core. Introductory physics, no calculus, a touch of trig, but mostly just your standard mathematics you ought to have learned in high school. If I got one student in a group of 20 that had the full necessary background, it was lucky.

 

With this level of incoming students, there is no reason to try and make it easier for people to get a College/University degree. The few students who did study in high school and did get a proper background already make it into good Universities with a stipend to get them through at least most of their expenses.

 

You said it yourself

 

 

I think college just makes everyone broke. My professor was still paying off his student loans.

And I don't mean just going to classes and getting good grades. Standard program is criminally inadequate. If you aren't taking college level classes by grade 11, you're doing it wrong.

 

 

I'm not proposing we get straight D slackers into med school but there are a lot of hoops you need to jump through and a lot of sacrifices to be made be it the uni you want to attend or what you actually want to study if it eists outside the STEM paradigm, if you want to graduate without a lot of debt. It's not just about getting good grades. The problem starts with K-12 education and goes all the way to the top; i'm not disputing that.

[K^2]

These still aren't hoops. That's what overwhelming majority of kids in countries with good education do by default. They take real classes with real challenge, regardless of whether it is math, science, or literature. All you have to do to get a free ride to college in US is take the same level classes and do well in them. Yes, that means taking high school classes in 8th grade, AP in 10th, and starting to pick up university classes in 11th. None of it requires tuition. Not entirely free - you need to pay for some tests and get books - but nowhere near the kind of debt you accumulate by taking out a student loan.

 

Setting aside biases against low-income families, which is a problem, but beyond the scope of the discussion, going to school and fulfilling the minimum requirement there is simply not an education. The bar is set so low, thanks to "no child left behind" attitude, which actually predates the initiative by couple of decades. What we need are standards - a real bar for education that will only be met by about half of the students. Then, when we have a situation where anyone who doesn't completely flunk out of high school is good enough to be admitted into at least a community college, then we can start talking about making sure that anyone who graduates has an actual opportunity to go.

 

As it is, we already pay tuition for these who are likely to do well, and anyone else can roll the dice on their own dime. The money should be diverted towards K-12 instead.

[make total destroy]

Idek what to do with my life, I might just kms after high school and be done with it.

[Leftist Bastard]

 

Idek what to do with my life, I might just kms after high school and be done with it.

 

Could make a good Forrest Gump sequel.

[make total destroy]

I actually wouldn't recommend listening to Animal Collective btw.

[Leftist Bastard]

I know I asked this question before but I don't remember where and I can't seem to find the GTAF discord room thingy